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by janoc 9y ago
You are very very wrong. In most of Europe (including here in France with their famously rigid labor code) you can be terminated for pretty much anything as well, with a few exceptions. In many cases the employer doesn't even need to j
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by janoc 9y ago
> Inability to perform under pressure does not imply high skill without pressure. Ability to churn out crap in a time limit doesn't imply competence neither.
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by janoc 9y ago
Apollo program certainly did not work under the same type of constraints the Soviets had. Yes, the electronics was primitive compared to what we have today but Apollo didn't need to work around international embargoes for every screw a
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by janoc 9y ago
That's more indicative of poor management and planning on the company's side than reflecting on the performance of the candidate if the time pressure is a regular occurrence. Few people perform well under pressure. Do you want to
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by janoc 9y ago
Well, but to be fair to the Soviets, they had to do it with really "stone age" electronics and technology and not knowing the many things we know today. I am pretty sure that SpaceX was able to achieve what they did today also bec
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by janoc 9y ago
Sorry but the OSM navigation features are not comparable with Google Maps and even less with a dedicated satnav. Not to mention voice navigation, which is an essential thing to have in car, as well as live traffic info. I need a satnav solu
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by janoc 9y ago
Navigation on the phone is great - as long as you have a workable 3G/LTE signal. Try to drive across continent like that. Google maps and similar will not allow you to pre-cache that much data and once you are out of cell phone coverag
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by janoc 9y ago
What's even worse, even the payment issue is solved and nobody is forced to go through Airbnb for that. There is Paypal, Moneygram, Western Union, there are direct wire transfers, in many countries you can pay by cheque, you can do a d
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by janoc 9y ago
The problem is that everything is wrong here. Username is not a signature of malware by itself. There could be a ton of reasons why someone could have an account like that on the machine - be it someone's name, maybe some AI project, p
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by janoc 9y ago
A dick move like this by Nvidia will only spur the development of alternatives to CUDA. CUDA isn't the only game in town but until now nobody had much reason to invest in improving the alternatives - CUDA was free, worked and the hw wa
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by janoc 9y ago
Then this is again the same kind of money grab as they have done with active stereo rendering - it used to work even on consumer-level hardware. But then it got popular outside of research labs too, so Nvidia has decided to milk the cow and
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by janoc 9y ago
Worthwhile and "fully online" are pretty much mutually exclusive. If you want a degree then actually go to the college. Watching videos is very different than actually talking to lecturers face to face, doing exercises under super
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by janoc 9y ago
I am sorry but this is neither complete nor a plan how to become a software engineer. This is a list of trivia to get you through a coding interview conducted by a clueless HR department that equates engineering skill with remembering answe
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by janoc 9y ago
The volatility alone wouldn't be a huge problem if the transactions were quick, apart from having to constantly re-price the goods (not a big deal with an automated system selling digital downloads, even though it is a real PITA for th
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by janoc 9y ago
There are printers around that don't have any of these issues already - e.g. the resin based machines. So 3D printing is not in any way tied to extruding molten plastic. However, they have problems of their own.
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by janoc 9y ago
[deleted as completely wrong - don't write posts before having coffee! Mea culpa!]
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by janoc 9y ago
They are also widely used for non-gaming stuff, it is just less visible. Concerning Mac the main problem is lack of any meaningful driver and hardware support from Apple. And without that there is little point in trying to port the SDKs. On
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by janoc 9y ago
Re 1) Mea culpa - I saw the OpenGL part in the article and didn't read it carefully. Re 2) Do you find it normal that an audio plugin now spends more time rendering its UI using a CPU renderer than processing audio? That physically bas
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by janoc 9y ago
So, now an audio plugin system has a physically based graphics rendering engine using OpenGL - in order to save diskspace by eliminating pictures of KNOBS ? Am I the only person who considers this beyond idiotic? So now the audio processin
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by janoc 9y ago
You want Nordic nRF24L01+ radios. That can be trivially handled by an 8bit micro using SPI, modules with these cost peanuts. However, if you want a PC/phone connectivity you would have to build your own dongle - or reprogram one from
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by janoc 9y ago
Uh, didn't we have the mandatory shoe removal for a while already after the shoe bomber? Shoe removal is still commonly demanded if the metal detector gets triggered and many places have special shoe scanning devices too. And we still
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by janoc 9y ago
It is not harmful - until the battery in one of those laptops fails and sets the plane on fire. With nobody to catch and extinguish it in the hold (the common halon suppression systems are ineffective against battery fires). It will probabl
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by janoc 9y ago
I do wonder how many laptop bombs have endangered planes so far - vs. actual Li-ion battery fires. Force laptops in the holds and watch planes crash when the inevitable battery fire happens. This policy will likely kill more people than the
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by janoc 10y ago
Good luck chasing bugs then, though. qsort() will be totally happy comparing apples to oranges - aka there is zero type safety. Templates give you compile time type checking, that's why one doesn't pass void pointers like this any
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by janoc 10y ago
It won't, no worries. Eye tracking in an HMD, whether AR or VR is hugely complicated from engineering point of view. There is a reason why an HMD eye tracking kit costs several thousands of USD. Moreover, from the rendering point of vi
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by janoc 10y ago
>Certainly VR has potential, I just think the HMDs we have now feel old and dated already. It's 2016 (when released) and it's heavy and wired, basically ski goggles with crappy monitors and crappy lenses hugging my face. While
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by janoc 10y ago
I have recently turned down another Google recruiter like this as well. Position in a domain that is not really my key field and only, maybe, after their crazy interviewing process. I am sorry, but I don't have time nor money for days
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by janoc 10y ago
Please, don't: "Install the newest version using your package manager or with this command: (wget -O - pi.dk/3 || curl pi.dk/3/ || fetch -o - http://pi.dk/3) | bash " facepalm
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by janoc 10y ago
That wouldn't account for all of it, I believe. E.g. I am making around 35k Euro/annually, before taxes. That is with 15 years of experience, with a university degree & a PHD in comp. science. And that is not at all rare if yo
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by janoc 10y ago
That's actually more than here in France :(

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